what are you into right now?

I have two! The other one won last year and in 92 so this year is more special

I used a page from a late '60s knitting book to decorate my drumming notebook. This is probably tmi but here you have it (the turtle is from a different book)
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3744/9488730925_dd18d61356_n.jpg

:D :D

i am in 4th gr btw

drumming! awesome

- Gilmore Girls
- Parenthood the tv show
- lauren graham, basically

Knitting August a sweater
Making horchata

I need to start watching Parenthood again!

I ditched 3/4 into season 1, but I actually do like it

I LOVE MAKING HORCHATA!! I get the flaky Mexican cinnamon from this tiny Mexican grocer across town. What's your recipe? How do you strain it w/o it being the biggest pain in the ass ever?

- not being TOO EFFING HOT (thanking u upstate NY)
- looking forward to a week off of skool next week!
- XTREME DENTAL HYGIENE (details upon request)

I'm requesting details. I'm guessing it involves four or more of those little plastic sword toothpicks.

http://morethansmiles.org/dental-health-guides/the-ideal-oral-health-routine-ebook/

It's like whoa. I like that dude isn't hawking any products (except, like, baking soda); he just seems super-obsessed with reaching out to the internets with his xtreme dental hygiene education!

authentic Sichuan cuisine

Stevie: After much research I ended up using a bag of rice, 160z, a cup of almonds and three huge canela sticks. Soaked them overnight in much water in the fridge for 24 hours. Then I ran it through the blender in two batches, strained. I ended up with rich, frothy, thick horchata, added sugar then added a wee bit of unsweetened almond milk.

Strained it with a dinky strainer but thinking of using cheesecloth to really wring it out? I think a really awesome blender would help too, perhaps a Vitamix (there, I said it).

*that is 16 ounces

fried plantains
bryan ferry
perfecting my made-up soundtrack to the non existent sequel to "sliver"
rewatching peepshow

when have you not been into bryan ferry!

the spicy tex-mex tofu fajitas i'm making tonight
hansen's diet ginger ale
cold showers
air conditioning at a level that most other people consider way too cold (wear a sweater, wusses)

perfecting my made-up soundtrack to the non existent sequel to "sliver"

brilliant

Vintage tea towels, after coming across several (overpriced) ones in mint condition at a Goodwill
Terrariums as a spectator, not actually making them

air conditioning at a level that most other people consider way too cold (wear a sweater, wusses)

yessssssssss

you know? i'm a big girl with a lazy thyroid and i'm not getting any younger. crank it.

aggressively combating social anxiety
vedanta/advaita/hinduism in general i guess
buffy season 6
the feral cats in my neighborhood
terrariums!

Sleep!!! My face is starting to droop, I don't get enough!

bubble tea

what flavor? milk or no milk?

randomly honey, lemon and mango (no milk) (pearls)

Crisps
Mars Bars
My new bike
Baharat spiced minced lamb

caffeine pills

IM SO EXCITED

well duh pearls bcz bubble tea w/o pearls is the drink of disgusting savages (fuck jelly fuck everything that's not pearls)

strawberry green/jasmine tea is my favorite, also mango, also honey+lemon, never milk

otm

tonight i said 'pearls', she said 'oh okay' like it was weird

in a bubble tea cafe, dedicated to bubble tea

strawberry green/jasmine tea is my favorite

doing this next!

i luv grass jelly but not in milk tea

which reminds me lately i am into roasted coconut juice, mmmmm

what is pearls? tapioca? it gives me a bellyache. I ask for "just a few pearls". gotta say though, the way a pearl comes sliding through a wide straw is a culinary delight on par with oyster slurps IMO

Enoki mushrooms
beet juice

thanks fgti, I had oysters last night and now I'm craving tapioca pearls

Quitting smoking (for the 2nd time this year LOL)

that bread like what they got in france

houses

Thinking about tie dying denim and practicing cooking. Left myself too broke to actually start doing either to the level I should be.

weeping copiously at having failed to get the certificate on the course I just finished. Or just getting frustrated taht I can't practice at home and can't properly channel myself and manage time during an exam.
Or taht I couldn't break away from what I was doing far enough to see what was going wrong. & that everything that was going wrong was something that was minute in itself and could have been easily rectified if I could have taken 10. Wondering if I'd been allowed to have a water bottle in the exam it would have given me enough of a step back to refocus.
Continual autopsy of spilt milk, which would have been handier to have in the exam itself.

positively, questionably(?) Blake's 7 which i've just watched most of the way through. Currently on the 4th series. Not sure if I watched this far before. The early episodes, those with Blake himself in are pretty good, a little clichéd in places some of the later stuff is also good.
Wasn't there a film of this being made? Wondering how they would transfer it, presumably instantly get rid of the low budget quality. I've been reminded of the remake of Solaris thanks to the use of stairs of office buildings, carparks etc as sets in the early episodes, or possibly throughout.
Wonder what Viking production some of the minor characters borrowed costumes from too.

Think I'll rewatch Neverwhere at some point soon too.

Qawal's new tandoor oven. They had some of these in London a while back , people were opening shop front shops selling naan breads that had been cooked as the customer waited. THey used a tandoor oven taht I think has only recently started to be produced in England, previously had to be imported from INdia. This is a small 4ft tall metal box with a central hollow metal shaft over a fire in the bottom of the unit. I think from having seen them on tv a while back the traditional style tandoor was about 10 feet tall and made of clay, but that programme was a very long time ago. Anyway the process is the same , the cook slaps the dough for the bread onto the side of this flue/shaft and it stays there for a short period of time while it cooks through.
He has some variants of this where the bread is stuffed with other ingredients. I must get around to trying that next week, though he keeps changing the menu each week so may have some other delectable I haven't tried and I'l have to wait.

rewatching peepshow

Iced fruited jasmine tea (iced jasmine tea + fruit in a blender)
Acquainting myself with the post-90's house/techno canon (Booka Shade, Metro Area, Villalobos, Kompakt's Total series, basically the Illmatics and Ready to Dies of the genre. Recommendations wanted!)
Pizzicato 5
Boredoms
Automatic bill pay

Vegan Cooking
WWE
Doing DIY around the Boat
Looking for a new job

Enjoying the album 'Amethyst' by Happy Hollows

microbudgeting

Pelageya Khanova
Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes
Il Giovane Montalbano
Watching YouTube clips of people dancing at weddings in Dagestan
Raw spring onions with pesto
Yuzu salad dressing